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Colonizing Hawai'i : the cultural power of law / Sally Engle Merry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in culture/power/historyPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xii, 371 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691009317
  • 9780691009315
  • 0691009325
  • 9780691009322
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.9 22
LOC classification:
  • DU624.65 .M47 2000
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language and Terminology -- 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Encounters in a Contact Zone: New England Missionaries, Lawyers, and the Appropriation of Anglo-American Law, 1820-1852 -- 2. The Process of Legal Transformation -- 3. The First Transition: Religious Law -- 4. The Second Transition: Secular Law -- Pt. 2. Local Practices of Policing and Judging in Hilo, Hawai'i -- 5. The Social History of a Plantation Town -- 6. Judges and Caseloads in Hilo -- 7. Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations -- 8. Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body -- 9. Conclusions -- App. A. Cases from Hilo District Court -- App. B. Accompanying Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: "How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-363) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language and Terminology -- 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Encounters in a Contact Zone: New England Missionaries, Lawyers, and the Appropriation of Anglo-American Law, 1820-1852 -- 2. The Process of Legal Transformation -- 3. The First Transition: Religious Law -- 4. The Second Transition: Secular Law -- Pt. 2. Local Practices of Policing and Judging in Hilo, Hawai'i -- 5. The Social History of a Plantation Town -- 6. Judges and Caseloads in Hilo -- 7. Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations -- 8. Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body -- 9. Conclusions -- App. A. Cases from Hilo District Court -- App. B. Accompanying Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means of transformation and a marker of the seductive idea of civilization. Sally Engle Merry reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands. The new law brought novel systems of courts, prisons, and conceptions of discipline and dramatically changed the marriage patterns, work lives, and sexual conduct of the indigenous people of Hawai'i."--Publisher description.

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